On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <
mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
So why does the Object Pascal language have a Cardinal type? Why
couldn't LongWord be used instead?
In Delphi world LongWord is 64-bit on 64-bit iOS platform and it is 32-bit
on 64-bit Windows platform.
Which is quite confusing and a really bad decision.
Basic integer types should not depend on the OS. On the CPU, yes.
Michael.
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